The Circus

Kaiya

"Well...you still can't shoot very well." She said

Dent snorted. "For heaven's sake, the man is fat enough. That's a target a sun-blinded mole couldn't miss."

Kaiya

"When will you do it?"

Dent sighed. "I told you, I don't know if that's what I'll do....it's an idea, though. A very good idea, but still an idea..." he shrugged. Ow.

Kaiya was about to respond when she heard a shout.

"Kaiya! Where are you?!" It was Rusty

Dent cursed. Maybe he would shoot him. He didn't believe in fortune-telling anyway, did he? Didn't he used to watch gypsies lie about it all the time?

He fingered the shape under his shirt. "Come in," he whispered. "I dare you..."

Kaiya saw what Dent was going to do, she quickly stood in front of him.

"Now isn't a good time, Dent. Wait un-" She was interrupted when Rusty entered the tent.

"What are you doing here?" Rusty snapped at her. Then he spotted Dent behind her. "What are you doing here?!"

"Last time I checked, this is my tent," Dent snapped. "I can be here all I want."

He inconspicuously lifted his shirt and took out the gun, but Kaiya was blocking him. He couldn't hit Rusty without hitting her. "Get out of my way," he hissed at her.

Kaiya

"Get out of my way," he hissed at her. Kaiya saw he had pulled out the gun, she quickly moved to the side.

"Thank you." he raised the gun...his hand was shaking.

Why was his hand shaking? Wasn't this what he wanted? They all wanted Rusty dead, didn't they?

Rusty squinted at him in the darkness. "What are you holding, boy?"

No going back now. He could either shoot and have a chance to be free. Or he could let Rusty know that he had a gun and be beaten. It wasn't much of a choice.

He pulled the trigger, catching Rusty on the shoulder. He went down. The gunshot echoed around the circus grounds, so loud Dent wondered if he would go deaf.

Flip-

I heard a gunshot and ran as quickly as I could towerd it. I knew who had shot the gun, I just wondered who had got hit?

Dent tried to stand up and run, but his knees buckled under him. His arms involuntarily caught his fall. "Ow!"

He swore. He should've waited until he was better...

Rogue (Robyn)

I heard the gun shot.

"Oh, no." I said, Dent had probably shot off his foot. I was scared at the idea. I started to run... I ran into the tent almost tripping over Rusty's fat body. The first thing I saw was blood alot of it, I looked over at Dent who was holding the gun.

"Dent! What have you done?!" I shrieked. "Oh God. Give me the gun honey, oh darling why did you do that?" He was shaking, it was faily easy to take the gun away from him. I looked down at Rusty.

"Are you ok?" I said not really concerned, we all wanted him dead.

"NO I'M NOT OKAY!!!! OH, WHEN I'M DONE WITH YOU BOY-"

"No!" I yelled, "It was my fault.... I gave him the gun, and told him to shoot you." I stood infron of Dent.

"Robi, what are you doing?" He whispered.

"I gave him the gun. It's my fault, not his."

"Why are you doing this why are you lying?!"

"I'm not lying, it's true, right Lark?" I said pleading her with my eyes to agree with me.

Lark's eyes were wide and she looked from me to Dent to Rusty.

"RIGHT Lark?" I nodded.

"R-r-right." She lied.

"Lark!" Dent yelled.

"What... it happened. I heard it... all of it." Lark looked me in the eyes pleading for my forgivness. I nodded toward her.

"I'm just sorry he missed." I said to Rusty. "Whatever punishment happens.... I'll take it with open arms." I said looking at the ground. I would protect him..... no matter what... Even if it meant me getting killed.

Dent swore at her. "What's wrong with you?" He turned to Rusty. "I stole the gun from--"

"He's been a little off," Rogue cut in. "He fell from the rafters, sir, and he's been a bit dazed since...since Cowboy's death. I'm sorry."

Dent climbed to his feet. His arm hurt like nothing else. and he decided the back of his ribs was bothering him, too, but this wasn't going to happen. Not to her. He tried to hold himself up, but he was failing quickly. "I'm not going to let you do this to yourself," he whispered. "I'm not a child, I am fully prepared to face what's coming to me, so shut up and stop lying."

Rogue (Robyn)

I was stunned, and proud at the same time that he would say something like that. i was actually very proud of him.

"I know you're not a child. But you're young, and I won't let something like this happen to you to ruin everything. You will learn why I have done what I have done for you. You'll understand one day."

Rusty stood up, angered, blood pouring out of his shoulder. "Come here!" He shouted, grabing the back of my hair, my long french braid. I closed my eyes. Rusty took me to his tent. I looked at Dent. closed my eys and waited for the beating of a lifetime. There was silence until I was in Rusty's large tent, and pain broke into my body..........